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Authorities in Toronto still haven't come up with an explanation for the unfinished tunnel that recently was discovered in the city. Maybe the thing was dug by someone looking for the Maple Leafs' playoff chances ... Perhaps the tunnel was built by members of the Maple Leafs, many of whom probably would like to stage a great escape from Toronto ... On Thursday, the Leafs traded overpaid forward David Clarkson to the Columbus Blue Jackets for overpaid forward Nathan Horton, who may never play again due to debilitating back issues. Memo to nostalgic Leafs fans: Sorry, but when it comes to Hortons, Nathan isn't Tim.

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Edwin Encarnacion was delighted with the roster moves the Blue Jays made over the winter. And on his first day of spring training, the veteran slugger pulled into the players' parking lot and immediately saw one of the newcomers, left-fielder Michael Saunders.

In his first full season in the big leagues, Alex Rodriguez hit .358 with an absurd 54 doubles and 36 home runs. Though he would later post bigger home-run totals, his slugging percentage and OPS at 20 years old hold up as the second-best of his career in those categories.

A few players have been working short days here for weeks, but on Sunday, the Blue Jays finally got around to the official sacraments of spring. Only one other team waited this long to summon their pitchers and catchers, but now, the annual sunshine stories begin, and on a day when the temperature was 27 C in Dunedin and -3 C in Toronto, Daniel Norris, Mark Buehrle and Brett Cecil were ready to oblige. Norris has appeared in a mere five big-league games, but the media loves him because in winter, he looks like a lumberjack and sleeps in his 1978 van during his leisurely surfing trip that starts at his home in Johnson City, Tenn., and ends in Dunedin.

Folks everywhere were intrigued this week to hear that a new work of fiction had been discovered. A quick quiz: Was the composition in question (a) an unpublished book by famed children's author Dr. Seuss, or (b) the handwritten apology offered to baseball fans by steroidtainted New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez? ... If one was to combine those two authors, one could come up with a title for A-Rod's missive: "Sham I Am" ... Actually, the five-paragraph letter didn't contain any details about Rodriguez's use of performance-enhancing drugs. Even so, Rodriguez gets an A for PED-manship ... Here's the NFL Network's Rich Eisen, discussing the letter on Dan Patrick's radio show: "The only question was, whose paper was he cheating off of ?"

More than half a century of isolation from the United States has left Cuba economically stagnant and culturally idiosyncratic. But the revelation the two countries are normalizing ties means change is coming to everything, from the cars on the road to the tourists on the beach. This week, Matthew Fisher reports from Havana on a country on the verge of a new revolution.

Washington's star-studded rotation reports to Florida. Matt Harvey continues his comeback with the New York Mets. Joe Maddon takes over the Chicago Cubs and Russell Martin gets a closer look at Toronto's pitching staff.

The Yankees are retiring the uniform numbers of Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Bernie Williams and will honour the trio with plaques in Monument Park this season along with Willie Randolph. Pettitte (46), Posada (20) and Williams (51) will raise the Yankees' total of retired numbers to 20. The Yankees also are expected to at some point retire Derek Jeter's No. 2, their last single digit number in use.

Calling his recent work "not acceptable" and with his credibility completely gone thanks to a years-old scandal, Tiger Woods announced this week that he's taking some time off. Or was that Brian Williams? ... There is a difference between the two men. Williams - the now-suspended anchor of NBC Nightly News - got into trouble for claiming he was on board a helicopter that was shot down over Iraq in 2003. Woods got into trouble because he wasn't shot down by any of the women he approached in the 2000s ... When Woods announced he was taking a break from golf, he admitted he needs to do "a lot of work" on his game. Thanks to Woods' recent hacking and slashing, other people have a lot of work to do as well: Greenskeepers.

Former sluggers Carlos Delgado, Corey Koskie and Matt Stairs will be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame June 13 along with longtime Montreal Expos manager Felipe Alou and sportswriter Bob Elliott.